Professional Development Webinars

IACET's Professional Development Webinars are designed to bring a value added to Accredited Providers and individual members by providing relevant educational opportunities on topics associated with adult continuing education and training.

Interactive and convenient, IACET’s Professional Development series of webinars covers topics such as:

Web-Based/Online Course Development and Implementation.

Best practices for adult education.

Innovative ideas on the latest technology.

Ideas for improving classroom instruction and training programs.

Best practices for online and classroom instructors.

And much more.

Connection Webinars are available to Accredited Providers and Individual Membership free of charge. Non-members may attend select webinars free and most others for a small fee per webinar. You can become an Individual Member fast and easy, join now.

Professional Development Webinars Overview

In 2017, there were over 12 million children living in poverty (Children's Defense Fund). It is imperative for educators to understand the foundations regarding the principles of teaching to the poverty mindset, if the goal is to help people (students) out of poverty.
By the end of this webinar attendees will be able to:
- Identify poverty and its effect on the student mindset.
- Employ the fundamental foundations of teaching students in poverty.
- Apply the integration of these principles into curriculum using an inclusive approach

Virtual Team Building with Purpose takes on some of the top virtual team challenges and counters them with ways to create team member engagement and participation. Using our Long Distance Leadership Model™, during this presentations the presenter will:

Provide a structure for matching the right activities for the right challenge in virtual team environments.

Review a ten ideas for virtual team building activities.

For attending this webinar, the presenter will also offer a FREE virtual team assessment and 30-minute consultation that will provide unique insight for your organization's virtual team considerations.

Value proposition for this webinar: By spending this time with Lee Johnsen, you will gain important knowledge about how to work with remote members and build effective teams which in the end can save time and money.

Participating in an association’s learning and development program when it’s powered by digital credentials can bring the shine back for associations to recruit and retain members. In this free, live webinar hosted by Credly & IACET, you'll learn:

How leading associations are using digital credentials to attract members

How leading associations are using digital credentials to retain existing members

How associations and digital credentials promote networking and may aid in a job search

The content discussed in this webinar are not just applicable to associations, but to almost any learning organization that wants to better serve and attract customers.

Over the last year, NIGP: The Institute for Public Procurement, a non-profit education provider for the public procurement discipline, systematically reevaluated how we engage our learning community. Building upon traditional learning methodologies, we embarked on a new journey, incorporating competency models, certificates and traveling badges, and learner-centrism alongside a new learning management system to cultivate learner-led experiences based on individualized professional goals. While not new, these individual facets combined to transform NIGP’s learning capability, revolutionizing our learning landscape to provide practical and impactful learning experiences for new and returning members alike.
Using the Institute’s “Learning Reimagined” initiative as a case study, Laura Shelters, the Director of Content Research and Development, and Bradley Davis, the Content Editor, explore how learning organizations can challenge both themselves and their stakeholders to stay on the cutting edge of the new-age learning environment and on the right side of IACET-endorsed methodologies. By the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to:

Discuss membership and engagement challenges as they relate to non-profit organizations worldwide.

Determine key elements of a learner-centric environment.

Identify techniques and methodologies that can be used to curate an organizational culture of life-long learning.

In today's world of high-bandwidth media, restrictions on training delivery modes have been erased. Video with audio narration is very popular, prompting training developers to convert formerly text-based training to audio/video-based(timeline-driven) training.

At the conclusion of this webinar, you will be able to:

Describe the method used to calculate the CEU value of self-paced versus paced (timeline-driven) training

Explain the special considerations of achieving the same learning outcomes with training times that can vary by more than 300%

Discuss the various approaches that can be taken to equitable treatment of learners who choose one training modality over another

In this presentation we will discuss the experience of Al-Quds Open University in providing continuing education and lifelong learning to the communities living in remote and marginalized areas as well as the communities suffering from poverty and underdeveloped services. Additionally, we will discuss how the continue education industry can benefit from distance education features to provide lifelong learning opportunities to all segments of the community. By the end of this session, students will be able to:

Recognize the role of open education in catering to the continuing education needs of diversified groups of students.

Discuss the open education concept in an occupied and segmented country as a means to provide continuous education and lifelong learning opportunities (“Education at your doorstep”).

Identify how open education and technological environments increase the role of continue education.

This webinar will present the basic principles of personal behavioral traits encountered in the classroom resulting in enhanced communication with learners. By the end of this session students will be able to:

The online classroom environment is very different from the traditional classroom environment. There are specific techniques and strategies that support the development and delivery of effective and engaging online learning programs. This webinar will share those techniques and strategies.

By the end of this webinar, learners will be able to:
• Describe the differences between an online classroom and a traditional classroom environment.
• Design an interactive and educationally effective webinar experience.
• Apply strategies for delivering webinars that sustain learner engagement and promote learning and retention

Scrutiny of data practices is front-page news. As IACET Accredited Continuing Education & Training providers, we face increasing demand for trustworthy record keeping and verification of credentials. To prepare for future regulation, not only must we ensure compliance with IACET standards, but also we must imbue our corporate cultures with information practices that inspire trust.
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
• Assess the future of data management regulation for CET organizations
• Align your corporate culture with ethical data standards
• Design data management practices that demonstrate organizational commitment to participant privacy protection.

Scrutiny of data practices is front-page news. As IACET Accredited Continuing Education & Training providers, we face increasing demand for trustworthy record keeping and verification of credentials. To prepare for future regulation, not only must we ensure compliance with IACET standards, but also we must imbue our corporate cultures with information practices that inspire trust.
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
• Assess the future of data management regulation for CET organizations
• Align your corporate culture with ethical data standards
• Design data management practices that demonstrate organizational commitment to participant privacy protection.

How do organizations recognize their talent’s knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) gained both through work and other experiences and translate them into credentials that matter? When industry and higher education work together they can reach the goal to equip talent with the ability to transparently share their KSAs in a way that contributes to personal and organizational growth.

Microlearning is about putting solutions in the flow of work, it is a strategic application of learning as a business tool that seamlessly integrates training content, performance support, coaching and community connections. In this session we will:

identify what microlearning is,

identify common types of microlearning

identify when microlearning is an appropriate solution, and effective techniques to design and develop microlearning.

Whether you are preparing a program for academic credit, a course for Continuing Education Units, a workshop with a completion certificate, or an instructional video, your audience wants to know if there is going to be sufficient quality or is the program merely “fluff”.
This webinar will present a technique to provide a mechanism to quantify the level of rigor associated with the student learning outcomes designed within your program. Utilizing “Bloom’s Taxonomy of Action Verbs (2001 version), the student learning outcome verbs are used to classify and ultimately aggregate them into a visually demonstratable measure of the rigor associated with your program. Thus, it will be easy to demonstrate the difference associated with the delivery of a program designed for an audience of children, high school students, college students or working executives. This provides the management of expectations to mirror the program design with the level of expected outcomes so that your customers are satisfied consumers of your product.

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

Utilize Bloom’s Taxonomy of Action Verbs

Demonstrate the difference associated with the delivery of a program designed for different audiences.

Join the conversation with us! IACET sits down for a candid live discussion with Jim Kirkpatrick, Senior Consultant for Kirkpatrick Partners and steward of the “Four Levels” framework, to discuss critical issues in training evaluation. Jim has made no secret in his writings about the perils for training organizations that do not properly evaluate. In this webinar, we will ask Jim about issues and trends he sees happening regarding training evaluation. In addition, attendees will:

Collaborate with Jim in an interactive session with questions and answers.

Value proposition for attending: By dedicating time to attend this webinar and spending time with Jim Kirkpatrick, who is an internationally known expert, attendees will hone their knowledge of training evaluation techniques and reinforce the importance of proper evaluation. Attendees will also receive valuable ideas about how they can apply new evaluation techniques in their learning environments. Information in this webinar, if applied, can enhance careers and contribute to higher ROI for learning programs.

Everyone has a mix of learning styles. According to StudyingStyle.com claims 65% of the population is made up of visual learners and 30% are auditory learners, so combining the two in your training or eLearning modules will be effective for almost all users.
In Clark and Mayer’s eLearning and the Science of Instruction, they say that research generally supports using narration with on-screen visuals, which is called the “modality principle”. And other research has found that the mix of visual and audio information can have a recall level of close to 50%.
Using the right voice-over technique gives a more human approach and can help learners stay engaged. A good voice over gives credibility to the subject matter and can be created in-house.
At the end of this webinar, learners will be able to:
• Create a basic studio and set up for in house narration and editing
• Create a quality voice over team from your staff
• List voice acting basics and different narration styles

The news across higher education is about providing students with skills they need for jobs and more often professors are asked to show evidence of student learning. This webinar will focus on planning assessment to better understand what students are learning in a course. To meet this focus the following outcomes will be addressed where participants will:

• Examine the learning outcomes written for a course;
• Describe how assessments throughout the course address these learning outcomes;
• Analyze how well students have mastered the learning outcomes using these assessments;
• Discuss summative and formative assessments use in a course;
• Make a plan how formative and summative assessment along with mapping how learning outcomes are addressed can provide you the best picture of what your students are learning.

Writing effective questions for tests, certifications, and other types of training is essential to assessing learning outcomes and participant knowledge. However, training around writing quality questions is not provided in many subject areas or graduate programs. This webinar will focus on some of the basics of writing high quality assessment items. To meet this focus, the following outcomes will be addressed where participants will:
• Examine test items to avoid correct answers using common test-taking strategies;
• Discuss specific ways to phrase questions and answer alternatives to ensure the question is measuring the intended knowledge;
• Analyze types of questions and phrases applicable to writing questions in accordance to Bloom’s Taxonomy.

To be announced

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